The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has recalled millions of defective cars to fix an accelerator problem: “We’ve halted production of [new] models this week to focus on fixing the problem for the vehicles that are on the road. Our entire organization … has been mobilized. We’re doubling our quality control efforts. Ensuring your safety is our highest priority.” Following this announcement, however, Toyota also recalled its flagship vehicle, the Prius, for a serious but unrelated software problem. Both mechanical defects are potentially life threatening.
Now for two high profile marital breakups: Former presidential candidate John Edwards said that, despite fathering a child by a mistress, which had resulted in the separation of himself and his wife, “I love my children more than anything and still care deeply about Elizabeth.”
According to okmagazine.com, Tiger Woods, once the world’s highest-paid golfer, and his Swedish wife Elin Nordegren, appear to be getting together again, now that Tiger has undertaken an initial course of sex therapy at an addiction treatment clinic. However, Elin (her name means “nymph”) is said not to be wearing a wedding ring, and is rumored to have bought a house on an island in her homeland, Sweden.
WODEN SAYS: Gammer Gurton’s 1810 “Garland … for the amusement of all little good children who can neither read nor run” contains the first publication of a famous nursery rhyme as follows:
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before.”
As everyone knows who has dropped an egg on the floor, it can be hard to start over. Hard but not necessarily fatal. Toyota has many more than threescore men and women trying to replace the parts and mend the public relations nightmare. The two sad cases of marital breakdown are basically a matter between the partners, their kids, and others intimately involved.
The spirit world looks on such failures as opportunities. First the folks at Home on the Other Side tell us to do away with judgment. “There is no right or wrong,” they say. Most people speeding towards a brick wall in an out-of-control Toyota would vehemently disagree. Presumably Mrs. Woods, smashing up her husband’s car with a seven iron (or was it a putter?), would disagree also—and Elin is no nymph but an angry wife and mother. William Congreve wrote in “The Mourning Bride” (1697):
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
So, failure incites fear of loss, and fear incites anger, and anger incites judgment. An unhappy train of very human emotions. Which is exactly what our souls are here to deal with. The incarnate soul came here with a purpose, which is to get to grips with negative energies and experiences to understand them and to relate to them positively.
When a car company falters, good people lose their jobs through no fault of their own; designers have to re-think their designs, marketers must redouble their efforts, and competitors may step into the breach and turn things to their own advantage. Was it pride that caused Toyota to fall like Humpty Dumpty? Was it greed in cutting corners? Idleness missing an obvious problem? We’ve had a rash of such things recently. Wall Street’s Lehman Bros. could not be put together again. Will the American economy still take a tumble?
In the case of a broken marriage the hurt party (or parties) can usually walk way from the mess. That is often the best spiritual answer, as it speaks of self-love. Maybe the seven-iron car window smashing treatment was a burst of self-love. Never stop loving yourself, Elizabeth and Elin. But that is the same spiritual answer for John and Tiger and Toyota people. Never stop loving yourself—never, never, never—whatever you did.
Starting over again is always possible, providing we realize that our soul is loving and sound. The things we do, or fail to do, with our egocentric conscious mind may cause us to fall and break. But our eternal soul takes note of it all and, hopefully, learns the lessons that are in the experiences we have cooked up for ourselves.
In the end, the souls—on both sides—have gained wisdom from the bad experience which need never be repeated. Maybe next time around we won’t be playing Humpty Dumpty. Just maybe.
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Starting Over Again
The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has recalled millions of defective cars to fix an accelerator problem: “We’ve halted production of [new] models this week to focus on fixing the problem for the vehicles that are on the road. Our entire organization … has been mobilized. We’re doubling our quality control efforts. Ensuring your safety is our highest priority.” Following this announcement, however, Toyota also recalled its flagship vehicle, the Prius, for a serious but unrelated software problem. Both mechanical defects are potentially life threatening.
Now for two high profile marital breakups: Former presidential candidate John Edwards said that, despite fathering a child by a mistress, which had resulted in the separation of himself and his wife, “I love my children more than anything and still care deeply about Elizabeth.”
According to okmagazine.com, Tiger Woods, once the world’s highest-paid golfer, and his Swedish wife Elin Nordegren, appear to be getting together again, now that Tiger has undertaken an initial course of sex therapy at an addiction treatment clinic. However, Elin (her name means “nymph”) is said not to be wearing a wedding ring, and is rumored to have bought a house on an island in her homeland, Sweden.
WODEN SAYS: Gammer Gurton’s 1810 “Garland … for the amusement of all little good children who can neither read nor run” contains the first publication of a famous nursery rhyme as follows:
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before.”
As everyone knows who has dropped an egg on the floor, it can be hard to start over. Hard but not necessarily fatal. Toyota has many more than threescore men and women trying to replace the parts and mend the public relations nightmare. The two sad cases of marital breakdown are basically a matter between the partners, their kids, and others intimately involved.
The spirit world looks on such failures as opportunities. First the folks at Home on the Other Side tell us to do away with judgment. “There is no right or wrong,” they say. Most people speeding towards a brick wall in an out-of-control Toyota would vehemently disagree. Presumably Mrs. Woods, smashing up her husband’s car with a seven iron (or was it a putter?), would disagree also—and Elin is no nymph but an angry wife and mother. William Congreve wrote in “The Mourning Bride” (1697):
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
So, failure incites fear of loss, and fear incites anger, and anger incites judgment. An unhappy train of very human emotions. Which is exactly what our souls are here to deal with. The incarnate soul came here with a purpose, which is to get to grips with negative energies and experiences to understand them and to relate to them positively.
When a car company falters, good people lose their jobs through no fault of their own; designers have to re-think their designs, marketers must redouble their efforts, and competitors may step into the breach and turn things to their own advantage. Was it pride that caused Toyota to fall like Humpty Dumpty? Was it greed in cutting corners? Idleness missing an obvious problem? We’ve had a rash of such things recently. Wall Street’s Lehman Bros. could not be put together again. Will the American economy still take a tumble?
In the case of a broken marriage the hurt party (or parties) can usually walk way from the mess. That is often the best spiritual answer, as it speaks of self-love. Maybe the seven-iron car window smashing treatment was a burst of self-love. Never stop loving yourself, Elizabeth and Elin. But that is the same spiritual answer for John and Tiger and Toyota people. Never stop loving yourself—never, never, never—whatever you did.
Starting over again is always possible, providing we realize that our soul is loving and sound. The things we do, or fail to do, with our egocentric conscious mind may cause us to fall and break. But our eternal soul takes note of it all and, hopefully, learns the lessons that are in the experiences we have cooked up for ourselves.
In the end, the souls—on both sides—have gained wisdom from the bad experience which need never be repeated. Maybe next time around we won’t be playing Humpty Dumpty. Just maybe.
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